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  • Of all the things humans can bestow names upon, new chemical elements are about the rarest. Our group of periodic table experts attempts to read the tea leaves and predict the names for elements 113, 115, 117 and 118.

    • Shawn C. Burdette
    • Philip Ball
    • Brett F. Thornton
    Comments & Opinion
    Nature Chemistry
    Volume: 8, P: 283-288

  • Shawn C. Burdette and Brett F. Thornton examine hafnium’s emergence from ores containing a seemingly identical element to become both a chemical oddity and an essential material for producing nuclear energy.

    • Shawn C. Burdette
    • Brett F. Thornton
    Comments & Opinion
    Nature Chemistry
    Volume: 10, P: 1074

  • Alfred Nobel's eponymous element, nobelium, was 'first' discovered either in the 1950s or 1960s, in the USSR, Sweden or the USA. Brett F. Thornton and Shawn C. Burdette delve into the ensuing decades of internecine strife over the discovery of element 102.

    • Brett F. Thornton
    • Shawn C. Burdette
    Comments & Opinion
    Nature Chemistry
    Volume: 6, P: 652

  • Scientists take nomenclature seriously, but tritium was named in a casual aside. Brett F. Thornton and Shawn C. Burdette discuss the heavy, radioactive hydrogen isotope that is available for purchase online.

    • Brett F. Thornton
    • Shawn C. Burdette
    Comments & Opinion
    Nature Chemistry
    Volume: 10, P: 686

  • Brett F. Thornton and Shawn C. Burdette relate how element 100 was first identified in a nuclear weapons test, but that was classified information, so researchers had to 'discover' it again using other methods.

    • Brett F. Thornton
    • Shawn C. Burdette
    Comments & Opinion
    Nature Chemistry
    Volume: 9, P: 724

  • From grand challenges of nineteenth century chemistry to powerful technology in small packages, Brett F. Thornton and Shawn C. Burdette explain why neodymium is the twin element discovered twice by two Carls.

    • Brett F. Thornton
    • Shawn C. Burdette
    Comments & Opinion
    Nature Chemistry
    Volume: 9, P: 194

  • Brett F. Thornton and Shawn C. Burdette consider holmium's hotly contested discovery and later obscurity.

    • Brett F. Thornton
    • Shawn C. Burdette
    Comments & Opinion
    Nature Chemistry
    Volume: 7, P: 532

  • Brett F. Thornton and Shawn C. Burdette look back at the discovery — and the many different names — of element 86.

    • Brett F. Thornton
    • Shawn C. Burdette
    Comments & Opinion
    Nature Chemistry
    Volume: 5, P: 804

  • Shawn C. Burdette and Brett F. Thornton explore how germanium developed from a missing element in Mendeleev's periodic table to an enabler for the information age, while retaining a nomenclature oddity.

    • Shawn C. Burdette
    • Brett F. Thornton
    Comments & Opinion
    Nature Chemistry
    Volume: 10, P: 244

  • Lanthanum is the first lanthanide — or the last. Or it’s not a lanthanide at all. In any case, Brett Thornton and Shawn Burdette are sure that it’s an element that might or might not be in group three of the periodic table.

    • Brett F. Thornton
    • Shawn C. Burdette
    Comments & Opinion
    Nature Chemistry
    Volume: 11, P: 188

  • A century ago this month, Frederick Soddy described and named isotopes in the pages of Nature. Brett F. Thornton and Shawn C. Burdette discuss how chemists have viewed and used isotopes since then — either as chemically identical or chemically distinct species as the need required and technology allowed.

    • Brett F. Thornton
    • Shawn C. Burdette
    Comments & Opinion
    Nature Chemistry
    Volume: 5, P: 979-981

  • When elements 117 and 118 are finally named, should these new members of the halogen and noble gas families receive names ending in -ium as IUPAC has suggested? Brett F. Thornton and Shawn C. Burdette look at the history of element suffixes and make the case for not following this recommendation.

    • Brett F. Thornton
    • Shawn C. Burdette
    Comments & Opinion
    Nature Chemistry
    Volume: 5, P: 350-352

  • Molecular engineers have long relied on a single light-driven event or chemical input to induce structural changes in switching systems. By carefully designing two hydrazone-based switches, it has now been shown that a single metal-binding event can trigger a signalling cascade that results in the isomerization of two different molecules.

    • Shawn C. Burdette
    News & Views
    Nature Chemistry
    Volume: 4, P: 695-696

  • History and anecdotes on the discovery of the superheavy elements.

    • Shawn C. Burdette
    Books & Arts
    Nature Reviews Chemistry
    Volume: 3, P: 346

  • At its inception, the periodic table sorted elements by weight, so it may be surprising that the heaviest natural element on Earth remains controversial, or at best, nebulous. In the strange, perhaps-unfinished search for this weightiest nucleus, the only definitive conclusion is that it lies somewhere beyond uranium.

    • Brett F. Thornton
    • Shawn C. Burdette
    Comments & Opinion
    Nature Chemistry
    Volume: 11, P: 4-10